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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and SELinux

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:07:09PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On 12/11/06, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >That is incorrect. With Fedora Core 6 the recommendation is definitely
> >to have  SELinux enabled when running Xen. The main thing you have to
> >be careful of is where you keep your filesystem images. The SELinux
> >policy expects them in /var/lib/xen/images.  Same is true of ISO images
> >if you're using them to install fully virt guests.
> 
> O.K.  Thanks a lot for all the information!
> 
> And do you think this applies also to other distributions, say,
> somebody wants to run Xen on Debian with selinux? Is it correct to
> assume that he has to do some things which the fedora people already
> did (and which probably required some research)?

I'm not too familiar with state of Xen / SELinux in Debian. All the stuff
we fix in Fedora/RHEL always goes back to upstream sources, so if Debian
folks are periodically refreshing SELinux policy from upstream they ought
to pick up the fixes eventually. 

Regards,
Dan.
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